$300 m. for road and bridge work in Wildlife Refuges and Fish Hatcheries

$1.7 b. for "critical deferred maintenance" in the National Park System

$200 m. to revitalize the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

$100 m. for National Park Service Centennial Challenge programs

$200 m. for repair of U.S. Geological Survey facilities

$500 m. for repair and replacement of schools, jails, roads, bridges, housing and more for Bureau of Indian Affairs

$800 m. for Superfund programs

$200 m. for leaking underground storage tank cleanup

$8.4 b. in "State and Tribal Assistance Grants"

$650 m. in "Capital Improvement and Maintenance" at the Agriculture Dept.

$850 m. for "Wildland Fire Management"

$550 m. for Indian Health facilties

$150 m. for deferred maintenance at the Smithsonian museums

$50 m. in grants to fund "arts projects and activities which preserve jobs in the non-profit arts sector threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn" through the National Endowment for the Arts

$1.2 b. in grants to states for youth summer jobs programs and other activities

$1 b. for states in dislocated worker employment and training activities

$500 m. for the dislocated workers assistance national reserve

$80 m. for the enforcement of worker protection laws and regulations related to infrastructure and unemployment insurance investments

$2 b. for "Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology"

$430 m. for public health/social services emergency funds

$2.3 b. for the Centers for Disease Control for a variety of programs

$5.5 b. in targeted education grants

$5.5 b. in "education finance incentive grants"

$2 b. in "school improvement grants"

$13.6 b. for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

$250 m. for statewide education data systems

$14 b. for school modernization, renovation and repair

$160 m. for AmeriCorps grants

$400 m. for the construction and costs to establish a new "National Computer Center" for the Social Security Administration

$500 m. to improve processing of disability and retirement claims

$920 m. for Army housing and child development centers

$350 m. for Navy and Marine Corps housing and child development centers

$280 m. in Air Force housing and child development centers

$3.75 b. in military hospital and surgery center construction

$140 m. in Army National Guard construction projects

$70 m. in Air National Guard construction projects

$100 m. in Army Reserve construction projects

$30 m. in Navy Reserve construction projects

$60 m. in Air Force Reserve construction projects

$950 m. for VA Medical Facilities

$50 m. for repairs for military cemeteries

$120 m. for a backup information management facility for the State Department

$98 m. for National Cybersecurity Initiative

$3 b. for "Grants-in-Aid for Airports"

$300 m. for Indian Reservation roads

$300 m. for Amtrak capital needs

$800 m. for national railroad assets or infrastructure repairs, upgrades

$5.4 b. in federal transit grants

$2 b. in infrastructure development for subways and commuter railways

$5 b. for public housing capital

$1 b. in competitive housing grants

$2.5 b. for energy efficiency upgrades in public housing

$500 m. in Native American Housing Block Grants

$4.1 b. to help communities deal with foreclosed homes

$1.5 b. in homeless prevention activities

$79 b. in education funds for states

http://www.barackobama.com/2008/01/13/bar...lan_to.php

So the republicans lent $350 billion to the right people but didn't hold them accountable....now the demoncratic (spelling intentional) house wants to lend $300+ billion for projects that will have ZERO impact on economic stimulus...except to put us into FURTHER debt to the rest of the world with no demonstrable improvement for us.

When BHO said he was going to "change" things, is this what he meant? God help us all if it is..............:rolleyes:

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Steve Amrein

01-29-2009, 12:15 PM

I look back at everything in my life and what I have accomplished so far and realize its been a waste. Instead of building my meager little company I should have become a lobbyist or at least a contractor for all of these pork projects.

Franco

01-29-2009, 01:49 PM

No doubts now, they are smoking crack!

Uncle Bill

02-03-2009, 04:15 PM

This is the stuff that worrys me the most. I have no doubt the leftists will pass some form of a "stimulus" bill, which we know is a misnomer. It's pure payback for all the Democrats spam for many years past. But the immigration part of it is incredulous...even for a Democrat. Do they need to buy so many additional voters that they can ignore their oath to protect the Constitutuion? How insanely ignorant has this countries inhabitants become that they can't see what's happening to their nation? It really is all about the 'ice cream.

UB

Stimulus': Your Money for Illegals, Welfare Recipients, Arts, and Sex
Just how outrageous is this shameful $819 billion stimulus?
For starters — and this will shock you — both the House and the Senate programs have a loophole that even gives illegal aliens cash payouts.
Here’s how The Associated Press explained it: “Undocumented immigrants who are not eligible for a Social Security number can file tax returns with an alternative number. A House-passed version of the economic recovery bill, and one making its way through the Senate, would allow anyone with such a number, called an individual taxpayer identification number (TIN), to qualify for the tax credits.”
In case you didn’t know it, any illegal can get a TIN number from Social Security, no questions asked.
This means illegals who broke the law to get here will be eligible immediately for federal cash — up to $1,000!
It gets worse. Let me detail for you some facts from the “stimulus”:

More than $4 billion is earmarked for "neighborhood stabilization activities" — money that will go to groups like ACORN, which worked closely with the Obama campaign, the same group accused of massive voter fraud.
Almost half of the proposed spending will directly benefit the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions, or other Democratic-controlled unions, according to writer Ben Stein.
$600 million goes for news cars for top government bureaucrats.
Obama promised major infrastructure projects — yet only 5 percent of all the money goes for this.
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.
$75 million to fund anti-smoking programs.
$650 million for the switch from analog television to digital.
$335 million to help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
$600 million for “climate change” research programs. This is just a small part of the long laundry list of trivial, weird, and simply outrageous programs being funded in the Obama stimulus bill, which goes on for 680 pages — so long no one in the House was believed to have read it before voting for it!
Just to show you the tremendous waste, there is so much money appropriated in this bill you could give every unemployed person in the nation a check for $75,000 for the amount being spent.

Franco

02-03-2009, 06:59 PM

But the immigration part of it is incredulous...even for a Democrat. Do they need to buy so many additional voters that they can ignore their oath to protect the Constitutuion? How insanely ignorant has this countries inhabitants become that they can't see what's happening to their nation? >

This is the way I see it. We may have reached the point of no return as you, I and most here on RTF are now the minority. Our leaders, for decades have not secured our boarders. As much pandering as the Republicans and Democrats have done to the Hispanic legals and illegals, they will vote heavily for the Dems. Pres. Raegan's Amnisty for illegals created the flood. Both Bushs and Clinton hid from the problem. Neither party wanted to lose the Hispanic vote, so our career politicians sold us out! With the new liberal administration, anything is possible. Just look at the Stimulus Bill before the Republicans got a hold of it. It's still a very bad bill but, better than it was. Now, they want to open borders and financially support them! We have a bunch of bums trying to play government. The first thing we really need to do to stimulate our economy is demand eight year term limits. What else can the average guy do?

badbullgator

02-04-2009, 11:30 AM

One thing that really gets me is that while some of this is very worthy, most of the money allocated will go to the usual government waste on these projects. Anything the government buy, builds, or contracts is ALWAYS over paid for by huge margins. Pick a project and if they are listing 500 million for it the actual cost is really going to be 250 million with the other 250 million being wasted or over paid. It is much the same in medicine, some products I could pick up at Wal Mart at a cost of $10 cost me $50 because they are “approved” for medical use. Exact same product, different label and market.
People see "medical" "scientific" or "governent" and the price goes up $$$$$$